Blood bank inventory management in India

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Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 376-399

  Lowalekar, Harshal ^a   Ravichandran, N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE   (India)

Author keywords

Blood bank; Hospital blood banks; IT; Models for blood collection and componentizing; Multiple products; Perishable inventory; Regional blood banks; Review paper

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920128902     PISSN: 00303887     EISSN: 09750320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12597-013-0148-z     Document Type: Article

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